Ben Tipple

DIY Magazine • 15th December 2020

Feature: PVA - Class Of 2021

Treading the line between the gig and the club, PVA are bringing a new type of euphoria to the live stage.

DIY Magazine • 14th December 2020

Review: Taylor Swift - evermore

There are lyricists and there are storytellers, and in a year of uncertainty and inconsistency, Taylor Swift has emerged as the most assured songwriter of a generation.

Rock Sound • 5th December 2020

Feature: Palm Reader - Stand Steady

When all the world around you are giving up on their dreams, what do you do? Well, you make an album like Palm Reader did.

DIY Magazine • 3rd November 2020

Live Review: Salem, New Cross Inn, London

Delivered with an unrelenting passion across all four members of the band, they easily confirm themselves as far more than a side-project. This is masterful punk’n’roll with a gloriously dark heart.

DIY Magazine • 30th October 2020

Review: MOURN – Self Worth

MOURN have embraced the uncontrollable chaos in order to find their own relief, as messy as that may be.

DIY Magazine • 30th October 2020

Review: Nothing - The Great Dismal

On a record that outwardly calls for the end of us, there’s plenty to live for, even if it’s simply the subtle beauty of Nothing.

DIY Magazine • 16th October 2020

Feature: Into The Stratosphere - Omar Apollo

“I do, but technically it’s not”, he laughs over Zoom from New York City when asked if he sees ‘Apolonio’ as his first official album. “I was going to put out a full-length, but because of COVID I just started calling it a project.”

DIY Magazine • 8th October 2020

Review: Touché Amoré - Lament

With the clouds lifted even a little, there’s a new world ready to explore; one with as many ups and downs as before, but one in which Jeremy and band feel more resilient and less restrained than ever.

DIY Magazine • 28th September 2020

Review: Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension

Not so much a call to arms as an exploration of the individual’s ability to disassociate from the norm.

DIY Magazine • 24th September 2020

Review: Pillow Queens - In Waiting

Pillow Queens are outwardly frustrated but comfortable in themselves, and their sound succeeds in finding the often-untapped ground between the two.

DIY Magazine • 24th September 2020

Review: Deftones - Ohms

If any of Deftones’ previous records are guilty of lacking focus, ‘Ohms’ is certainly safe from future vitriol.

DIY Magazine • 21st September 2020

Feature: A brief look into… Lanterns on the Lake's ‘Spook The Herd'

Whether speaking to a lover or to the world, it’s a reassuring notion that things can still be saved.

DIY Magazine • 19th September 2020

Review: Into it. Over It. - Figure

This sombre self-reflection runs throughout ‘Figures’, a record that doesn’t quite let go of the past but provides the blueprint to do so.

DIY Magazine • 20th August 2020

Review: Bully - SUGAREGG

“I’m not angry anymore,” Alicia Bognanno exhales on ‘Hours and Hours’, “I’m not holding onto that.” It’s a far cry from the visceral rage of her band’s previous albums, now replaced by a more optimistic outlook and melodies to match.

DIY Magazine • 14th August 2020

Feature: Eades - "I wanted to make it clear on our EP that we aren’t a one trick pony"

"We’re not the youngest band in the world,” vocalist Harry Jordan states, looking back on the various groups Eades’ five members have been part of over the years. “We’re not Arctic Monkeys being 19 when they released their debut album. We’ve made...

DIY Magazine • 7th August 2020

Review: Tkay Maidza - Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2

When Australian-Zimbabwean singer and rapper Tkay Maidza penned the first volume of her ‘Last Year Was Weird’ trilogy, she had no idea what 2020 was about to serve up.

DIY Magazine • 9th July 2020

Review: The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers

Although far from a discovery of confidence, it rounds out ‘Jump Rope Gazers’ as a cathartic acceptance of doubt. With it, The Beths find their most focused sound yet in the midst of uncertainty.

DIY Magazine • 26th June 2020

Review: HAIM - Women In Music Pt. III

While perfectly capturing the current zeitgeist, HAIM carry the passion, creativity and joy to also cement ‘Women In Music Pt. III’ as a timeless classic.

DIY Magazine • 18th June 2020

Review: Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher

As the record builds to a final cathartic hushed scream, ‘Punisher’ marks a clear step forward, but one that remains as fundamentally graceful as all that has come before.

DIY Magazine • 18th June 2020

Feature: Muzz - A Beautiful Fraternity

Interpol’s Paul Banks and life-long pal Josh Kaufman have joined forces with The Walkmen’s Matt Barrick for the oldest new union on the block. Making a great new supergroup? It’s child’s play.